Samuel Johnson: The Life of an AuthorHarvard University Press, 2009 M07 1 - 384 pages He was a servant to the public, a writer for hire. He was a hero, an author adding to the glory of his nation. But can a writer be both hack and hero? The career of Samuel Johnson, recounted here by Lawrence Lipking, proves that the two can be one. And it further proves, in its enduring interest for readers, that academic fashions today may be a bit hasty in pronouncing the "death of the author." |
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... career of Samuel Johnson , recounted here by Lawrence Lipking , proves that the two can be one . And it further proves , in its enduring interest for readers , that aca- demic fashions today may be a bit hasty in pronouncing the " death ...
... career is a long struggle to find an audience he eventually helped to create : the English common reader . But he also kept company in his mind with the great authors of Europe , living and dead . The effort to bring such real and ...
... and the psy- chological depth of W. Jackson Bate's Samuel Johnson ( 1977 ) . More recently , Robert DeMaria Jr. , in The Life of Samuel Johnson ( 1993 ) , has surveyed the literary career of a Renaissance man . 2 Introduction.
The Life of an Author Lawrence Lipking. has surveyed the literary career of a Renaissance man . These biogra- phers are also discerning critics , and all their Johnsons and more repay our interest . Nor is this focus on the life at all ...
... career as a whole . An uneasy consciousness that " Marx " does not stand for particular writings but for a " totality of thought " or mode of discourse is what drove Foucault to ask , " What is an Author ? " In spite of his effort to ...
Contents
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Preferments Gate The Vanity of Human Wishes | 86 |
Man of Letters A Dictionary of the English Language | 103 |
The Living World The Rambler | 145 |
Reclaiming Imagination Rasselas | 173 |
The Theater of Mind The Plays of William Shakespeare | 198 |
Journeying Westward Political Writings A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
Touching the Shore The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
The Life to Come Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Abbreviation | 307 |
Notes | 309 |
Index | 363 |